Unable to bond with his young boy, Ben Crane fled the family home – but his work with birds helped him become the father he wanted to be
In the delivery room, at the end of a gruelling 90-hour labour, Ben Crane was handed his newborn son – but something was wrong. The only thing Crane felt was a rising sense of dread and panic. As he looked down at his baby, he realised he didn’t feel the ecstatic love that so many men say they feel when they hold their child for the first time.
“I cut his umbilical cord, and I didn’t feel anything,” he tells me, six years later. “It was just a blank void. I was holding this bag of information that I had created.”
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